Tag: history
Brendan Fraser Will Play Dwight D. Eisenhower in World War II Thriller Pressure
Brendan Fraser’s career renaissance continues with a historical drama in which he’ll play an American President – albeit before his years in the White House. Deadline exclusively reports that Fraser will star in Pressure as Dwight D. Eisenhower. Pressure takes place during World War II, when ...
Read MoreAssassin’s Creed Shadows Steals More Artifacts While Yasuke’s False History is Exposed
It keeps getting worse for Assassin’s Creed Shadows, the next entry in Ubisoft’s video game series, which is set in feudal Japan. After they used Chinese architecture instead of Japanese and used the flag of a reenactment group without permission – not to mention the problems with Yasuke – r...
Read MoreWriters’ Room Developing Shogun Seasons 2 and 3
Variety reports that FX has a team of writers working on a potential second and third season of Shogun. This comes after news that FX was considering moving the series from limited to drama at the Emmys and producer-star Hiroyuki Sanada signing an ongoing contract. The show’s creators, Justin Mar...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024)
Imagine Inglourious Basterds without the intelligent plotting, the engaging dialogue, the captivating characters, the witty humor, the expert pacing, the unbearable tension, or the palpable stakes, but with an undue smugness and the tone of the Suicide Squad movies, and you’ve got a good picture...
Read MoreREVIEW: Oppenheimer (2023)
Oppenheimer is a masterpiece. Usually, I don’t like to throw words like that around so soon after seeing a movie, but when this one ends, you’ve got to exhale. This a three-hour-long film about people discussing theoretical physics that’s more exhilarating than many thrillers, filled with basi...
Read MoreREVIEW: Chevalier (2023)
This weekend saw the release of Chevalier, the latest musician biopic. This time, the gimmick is that it’s a period piece telling the lost life story of a black classical musician and composer. I didn’t know anything about Chevalier; when I first heard the title, I assumed it referred to...
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